Annual Pass and Dining Plan

[DisneyMotherOf2]

If you have an Annual Pass can you purchase the Dining Plan? Thanks!

 

[WilsonFlyer]

I'm pretty sure the DDP is tied DIRECTLY to a room reservation (requires one) and has absolutely nothing to do with APs.

 

[brios86]

You have to book under you AP account or else they will make you buy a ticket.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

You have to book under you AP account or else they will make you buy a ticket.

Interesting... granted it was really an assumption based on my reading here (We have never done the DDP and never will.), but that goes against everything I would have believed the DDP would be based on. I thought it was based on occupying a Disney resort room and didn't think it had anything to do with a ticket. So you're saying that's not true at all?

Not what I would have thought at all.

Thanks for the information. Now I know, I guess.

 

[hakepb]

Since this is a DVC forum, DVC points reservations do not need a ticket purchase to add DDP, even if you do not have an AP.

I believe the PP is correct if talking cash reservations, though.

 

[erionm]

Interesting... granted it was really an assumption based on my reading here (We have never done the DDP and never will.), but that goes against everything I would have believed the DDP would be based on. I thought it was based on occupying a Disney resort room and didn't think it had anything to do with a ticket. So you're saying that's not true at all?

Not what I would have thought at all.

Thanks for the information. Now I know, I guess.

AP holders can book a room and add a dining plan without a ticket purchase.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

AP holders can book a room and add a dining plan without a ticket purchase.

OK. That I get, but the implication/question made no mention about a room. That was the point I was trying to make. I see what they MEANT now. It's just not exactly what they asked. I thought they were asking, quite lierally, if they could buy the DDP with only an AP, with a room off-site, for example. I knew you couldn't do that. Make sense?

 

[DebbieB]

You can't get free dining with a room & AP, you must buy at least a 2 day MYW.

 

[DisneyMotherOf2]

Thank you for your responses. We will be staying onsite through the DVC at either BCV or BWV for our trip next May. We're planning on going back in December and then again the following April so we're going to buy an AP in May. It will be the first time we buy an AP. My In-laws will be with us sharing a 2 bedroom villa. We've done the DDP on other trips, but not all. I wasn't sure how it worked with AP. We'll be staying for one week. Thanks again!

 

[vicki_c]

Thank you for your responses. We will be staying onsite through the DVC at either BCV or BWV for our trip next May. We're planning on going back in December and then again the following April so we're going to buy an AP in May. It will be the first time we buy an AP. My In-laws will be with us sharing a 2 bedroom villa. We've done the DDP on other trips, but not all. I wasn't sure how it worked with AP. We'll be staying for one week. Thanks again!

But in your case - which I think you mean you are staying @ a DVC resort on points for that future trip - your AP has nothing to do with it.

Dining plans can be purchased with:
(1) regular MYW package staying @ a Disney resort with at least a one day ticket
(2) an AP holder ticketless package, staying at a Disney resort - no ticket purchase needed.
(3) a DVC reservation, staying at a Disney DVC resort (obviously) - no ticket purchase required.

For #2 - you must be paying either rack rate or have an AP rate for the room - you cannot be using any other type of discount. This option also works like a standard package reservation, subject to the $200 down payment, payment in full due at 45 days out, same cancellation policies, etc. as #1.

As someone above said, for free dining - you must buy a minimum 2 day ticket to get that offer (and whatever other conditions Disney puts on the offer re: minimum stays), no matter whether you have an AP or are a DVC member.

 

[disneynutz]

Thank you for your responses. We will be staying onsite through the DVC at either BCV or BWV for our trip next May. We're planning on going back in December and then again the following April so we're going to buy an AP in May. It will be the first time we buy an AP. My In-laws will be with us sharing a 2 bedroom villa. We've done the DDP on other trips, but not all. I wasn't sure how it worked with AP. We'll be staying for one week. Thanks again!

The AP doesn't have anything to do with getting the DDP as a DVC owner or guest.

Bill

 

[erionm]

But in your case - which I think you mean you are staying @ a DVC resort on points for that future trip - your AP has nothing to do with it.

Dining plans can be purchased with:
(1) regular MYW package staying @ a Disney resort with at least a one day ticket
(2) an AP holder ticketless package, staying at a Disney resort - no ticket purchase needed.
(3) a DVC reservation, staying at a Disney DVC resort (obviously) - no ticket purchase required.

For #2 - you must be paying either rack rate or have an AP rate for the room - you cannot be using any other type of discount. This option also works like a standard package reservation, subject to the $200 down payment, payment in full due at 45 days out, same cancellation policies, etc. as #1.

As someone above said, for free dining - you must buy a minimum 2 day ticket to get that offer (and whatever other conditions Disney puts on the offer re: minimum stays), no matter whether you have an AP or are a DVC member.

As for #3, the dining plan is also available on Disney Collection Reservations at WDW booked using points (no ticket purchase required).

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Thank you for your responses. We will be staying onsite through the DVC at either BCV or BWV for our trip next May. We're planning on going back in December and then again the following April so we're going to buy an AP in May. It will be the first time we buy an AP. My In-laws will be with us sharing a 2 bedroom villa. We've done the DDP on other trips, but not all. I wasn't sure how it worked with AP. We'll be staying for one week. Thanks again!

Wow, the responses went all over the place on this thread.

It sounds as if you've purchased the dining plan before for your DVC stays, and are asking if anything changes now that you'll have an annual pass instead of Magic Your Way Tickets. The short answer to your question is that, no, nothing changes. There is no ticket purchase requirement to add dining to a DVC reservation, so the fact that you will now have an annual pass will have no impact on either your reservation or your dining plan purchase. It will work exactly the same as it did during past trips when you got the DVC dining plan.

 

[vicki_c]

As for #3, the dining plan is also available on Disney Collection Reservations at WDW booked using points (no ticket purchase required).

Thanks I wasn't sure about that part. So is it safe to say any on property reservation booked thru MS or is that too much? Can cash stays thru MS also add the dining p,an with no tickets?

 

[erionm]

Thanks I wasn't sure about that part. So is it safe to say any on property reservation booked thru MS or is that too much? Can cash stays thru MS also add the dining p,an with no tickets?

Member Cash reservations are treated the same as points reservations. So Yes, a dining plan be added to any WDW Resort Reservation made thru MS with no ticket purchase requirement.

 

[TDC Nala]

If you're on a DVC reservation it makes absolutely no difference what type of ticket you have. You can purchase a dining plan.